Africa

World Cup Tragedy Of South Africa

The urge in the beginning had been to entitle this piece “The Death of African Solidarity”. It took no time at all for me to...

South Africa: We Are All Victims

South Africa has pursued post-apartheid policies, the consequences of which we are seeing today. The country has a terrifying, soft underbelly which is now...

Manufacturers of Coups and Bandits   

Coups and bandits are all the rage these days. Just the other day, December 7 to be exact, there was the hot news that soldiers...

Obama Dared by Israel's Toxic Arrogance!

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu remains adamant on Jewish settlement expansions. He is recalcitrant and unrepentant even in the face of findings by the United Nations and polite entreaties from the United States...

Obama Is Not American!

There is so much idiocy going on in America these days. Racism is alive and well, but now too often wears fine clothes and expresses itself in impeccable grammar wrapped in robust syntax...

Health-Care Controversy in the United States

The more fundamental issue in the health-care debate is how government can resolve the balancing of competing interests in modern American society, in a fair and equitable manner...

The Truth About Foreign Aid: Where It Really Goes

The World Bank and IMF are seen in developing countries as tools by which western nations control public policies and the lives of people in the developing world...

Obama's Health Reform: The Anathema To Change Is The Fear Factor!

Healthcare Reform efforts have met with a deluge of noise and permeating fear-mongering. This fear-mongering is being perpetuated by those opposed to change and reforms of the currently antiquated, discriminatory and lopsided healthcare delivery system in America...

Ghana and Nigeria: A Tale of Two Nations

Visiting Ghana from Nigeria for the second time in ten years, one cannot but marvel at the turn of events and the progress this country has made in recent years since I last visited. After four days in this emerging African giant, Accra, the capital city, represents the face of a new Ghana...

Oil For Terrorist or Is It Compassion? Western Ideals; Real or Romantic Figments?

As a precursor to the invasion and occupation of Iraq by the United States and the subsequent overthrow of Saddam Hussein in March 2003, there was a US-Iraq policy supported by the United Nations. It was called the Oil-For-Food Program...

AFRICOM: Self-Serving Western Interests or African Security?

America's establishment of the so-called African Command should be seen for what it is. This is America's self-serving armada of protection for America and her allies...

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The Other Nollywood

I’m more concerned about the new Nollywood... Sorry to say this o, but Kelani cannot stand near these new guys. Idumota will look like slow motion beside them...

Failure of Imagination in Postmodernism in Nigeria 

What do Nigerians really want? A million dollar question!...

Nigeria 2019: Nigerian Youths and One-Term Proposition of Buhari’s Presidency

"Let us not seek the Republican answer or the...

What manner of representation is this?

Can any Nigerian among the many who are daily buffeted by sundry poor service providers ever walk into the office of any parliamentarian anywhere in the country and get heard and helped in any way? Do most Nigerians even know the constituency offices of their so-called representatives?

In Loving Memory of NAL…

In the military, a commander who fails to achieve his operational objective and under whose watch a calamity occurs will face a disciplinary action that includes but not limited to a court martial.  But in the corporate world, it’s a different ball game...

Another Wasted Life

History will never forgive those who refused to take a positive decision in the case of the late Ms Eze Elizabeth Alabi...

Omehia The Soul Of Ndi-Igbo

While a lot of people who gained financially from the leadership style of former governor of Rivers State, Dr. Peter Odili, are praising it as the best, many a people in the state he led for a good period of eight-years are crying foul and blue murder...

Comparing nigeria with developing or developed countries

That I frequently hear Nigerians, educated and exposed, make illogical excuses for Nigeria is unexplainable. This weird idea of rebuffing anybody who dares to ask why Nigeria, in spite of her natural and human endowments, is not sitting up the ladder of developed countries is first of all sycophancy of the first degree...

President Umaru Yar'Adua: Home Coming or Home Going?

The Acting President, Dr. Jonathan Good Luck, should collaborate with the National Assembly, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Information and Ministry of Justice to verify and ascertain the medical condition of the president and his readiness to resume office...

Rochas Okorocha; The Man And His Mandate!

For some days now, we were recipients of the much acclaimed, generally well deserved, received and respected news that Owelle Rochas Okorocha will be helming the government of Imo State...